Young lover in Robert Doisneau’s Paris kiss photograph dies aged 93

Françoise Bornet and her husband in April 2005 at the Dassault auction house in Paris where a print of The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville sold for more than €150,000. Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty

It was one of the most famous kisses of the 20th century – a postwar clinch that became a 1980s poster phenomenon, bringing fame and court battles.

Françoise Bornet, the young lover immortalised in the French photographer Robert Doisneau’s The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville, has died aged 93.